Hutchies & Cape Moreton

[cptpott]

So you've seen the Title & said to yourself " Ooo what's he got at Hutchies?, did he get the Amberjack or kingies he was hoping for ?.... Nuh.
perhaps some assorted reef bag?.... Nuh
how about a big wahoo whilst trolling away from hutchies towards the cape?....Nuh.

Got nothing at all at hutchies this morning. Could have caught another boat, there were plenty.

All we got were sweep.

Sweep! I can catch sweep off Sydney!

Sweep and Lunar & Yellow wrasse - must have caught 30 wrasse.

Somewhat dissaponting when it costs $150 bucks for fuel!

Took a pommie with me 'though, who was delighted ! It had been a life long ambition for him to go offshore fishing in Australia. He had a ball! -
I was ashamed.
Took him all the way out there, in sloppy conditions, & the best I could put him onto was sweep.

Can you eat those yellow wrasse? does anyone know? If I'd caught the equivelent weight in snapper I'd be a happy man.

Well at least I was out of the house and it turned into a nice day.

How did everyone else go? Or are you all up at Frazer?



Cheers

Craig

[Tassie JR]

Hey mate, we done about as good as you we ended up with 3 good size pearlies and about 500 undersized ones around the 30-33 cm mark it sucks when you have to throw them back when there only 2cm undersize.

cheers tassie JR

[Angla]

You get those days.

It was odd for me to get a feed from a charter trip. $ more than you fuel.

Chris

[Nofishtoobig]

The fishing seems a bit of a let down the last few weeks, consistancy is not good and the reports are mixed, it might be the water quality throwing the fish after having an extended rain season after a few short ones, and the water qual getting too clean now, im thinking there still out wider, or north or south of the area, the bait shows and other pelagic reports tend to agree with it too. still beats workin though.

[Nofishtoobig]

:d :d :d :d

[cptpott]

Yeh tassie,
I did hook up on a nice red cod - 2 cm undersize - back you go!
Heaps of undersize spangled emporer as well.

ah well - se la vie

[cptpott]

Yep fellas it does beat working.
Did also pick up what I thought was a fusileer, but now I'm not so sure.
Yellow & Blue but with a much blunter head. I'm wondering id it may have been a juvenile mahi mahi. (didn't take a photo)
Any thoughts?

[lippa]

we got a few out there, we call em fusilers, tasty they reakon.

[Skusto]

we went out on sunday didnt get out till about 9 ended up with 5 squire and one unstoppable that dogged us into the reef and cut the leader, had to work hard for them to not much around. we also got a 45cm amberjack but let him go as we didnt know the size limit on them or if they have any do they? had a look in our dpi print out but couldnt find them. oh and should say wasnt it perfect out there at about 4 was like a milk pond pitty the fish went dead altogether after that.

[cptpott]

Hey skusto, it may well have been a milk pond at 4pm but it was as slopy as anything at 8 am. we had one badly timed wave come over the bow and up to the windscreen - and I'm in a 6m boat!
You are quite right mate the DPI have no AJ listing, neither did the back of my tide chart from the tackle shop. However when I did a search of the DPI site, I found a record of a meeting in Tin Can bay of rec fishers & dpi that discussed bag limits for AJs and recommended 5, no size limit 'though.
maybe someone else could shed some light?
Might be worth a new thread?
Anyway mate glad you got five squire, were you around hutchies? or did you go out wider. I was talking to a couple of fellas at the ramp who were heading wide out the front of moreton. Perhaps I should have followed?!

[tenzing]

Craig, the situation was the same all along in front of Moreton too.
We left Scarborough at 3am! and were on our first drift at Smiths at 4am. We fished all of the shoals east of the cape before heading up to hutchies. We bottom bashed , used soft plastics , found bait balls on the sounder and used knife jigs, fished livies, and finally trolled some bridled whiptails for cobia around western rocks.
Grand total in the esky; 40 cm moses perch (my son picked up at 4;15 am)and a gold spot wrasse at Brennans.
We had all kinds of bait, all the possible gear and put in 8 hours and 100 litres in the victory. (nice boat by the way Craig.)
Thanks to Phil from BCF for the instruction (he wants to be known as "spew boy "from now on)I'm sure on another day it will pay off.
Cheers Brendan

PS it was hardly a mill pond at 4am either

[cptpott]

hey Brendan, thanks mate. So its not just me - it is the fishing at the moment!
Yup the victory is a nice boat, it's my second seafarer and it hasn't let me down. That's a nice photo of yours on the plane in your avatar.
I wnt through a bit under 100 l as well. I left from Scbr at about 4:30am or so. and it was a bumpy ride across the bay - I think seabreeze was a bit early with its prediction.
How long have you had your Victory? Is that an etec or a Johnson on the back?
Why tenzing? Wasn't he Edmund Hillary's sherpa?
Cheers

Craig

[Angla]

Brendan,

I felt sorry for you guys as we were heading out in a 55 footer. We could feel the slight swell and some of the waves knocked a few off balance a bit. Sounds like the fishing was dead that direction but we caught a few. No bag limits mind you, and even the spanner crabs were a little scarce with the first 2 dillies coming up empty. Crew said it was a bit poor.

Will see about planning another trip shortly. I would be interested to take both boats maybe.

Chris

[cptpott]

Hey Angla, saw your post. Fish & Crab were pretty good when I organised an office "team building day" with them a couple of years ago. We gota swag of fish
What boat have you got when your not on a charter?

[Angla]

I was happy with the charter. Its the sort of day where you can veg out and still fish too.

Cruise Craft 575 outsider

Sorry to hijack your thread talking to Tenzing

Chris